Calvin Lundell

I did not understand this movie at all. It had 3 separate plots and only one got “solved”. First, Barbie goes to the real world to find the person that plays with her doll version because she is beginning to look imperfect and the only way to change that is to change the view of the person using her not herself. Second, the Kens are tired of being ignored and in the shadows of the Barbies so they take action and perform a 3 hour coup (How! Just how?). This coup forces all the barbies into over sexualized submissive objects. This is all because Ken saw men in the real world as the leaders and saw horses? I think? Idk. Third, Barbie takes back Barbie land by reinstating matriarchy which sounds good but forces the kens into a worse oppression than the women in the real world. It even said at the end that in a few years the Kens will reach the level of equality that real world women have. Yikes. Women now are pretty oppressed so imagine the Kens. At least pro-equity groups have momentum. What real Pissed me off was the ending, character development, and story. The story was all over the place. For some movie science reason, the Barbie world was an opposite of the real world but was also the same at some points? Once again, idk. Most movie stories can be outlined in 2D complexity with some more complicated 3D like Inception, Interstellar, Space Odyssey, or Tenet. Meanwhile this movie needs a 4th dimension to explain itself and it wasn’t even si-fi. The characters were worse. Every man and women there were the most fit I’ve ever seen. Ken was ripped but there were no fat Kens. Barbie was thin with little muscle and there was a fat Barbie just to say fat is good. I’m not much of a body positivity activist but it’s alright to have a bit of flab just don’t turn into a full on bowling ball. It puts the “handsome” stereotype on men as being ripped but women are pretty if there’re anything except ripped. There was no workout Barbie as there was no fat Ken. Finally, the ending. I was thinking, oh, there could be kids watching this (But what do I know about parenting, I don’t have kids), the directors probably want to end it with “they all bounded off together hand to hand, seeing eye to eye”. Nope. They end it with a dump truck load of misandry. To save some a google search, it’s the girl version of misogyny. They push the Kens into their shadows saying hush up and be a bumbling fool. If this world is the exact opposite of the real world, did they call real women bumbling fools. I’m still confused on how the relations work but either way friendly fire by the directors and thats just straight messed up. We don’t need a gender war. We need to except each other for who we are not what’s between our legs or our personal perception of ourselves. Overall this movie is just adding to the already existing gender craze. It’s teaching people that there is indeed a giant gap between the effectiveness and importance of men and women.